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Saturday, 15 February 2014

Smart Contact Lenses to Help Diabetics Fight against the Disease

Have you ever heard of contact
lenses that are neither for color transformation nor
for correcting the errors in refractive index? In coming years; with Google
smart contact lenses; people with diabetes can fight against the disease.

Google smart contact lenses are currently in the development
state. Google the ever-expanding empire has yet another miracle to put forward.
Google proposes its smart contact lenses as an alternate to the painful and
conventional finger-pricking method of checking the glucose levels in blood.
With these smart contact lenses patient will be able to measure sugar level in
their body. Google smart contact lenses are wearable gadgets that help you
finding out the glucose through your tears.

Since it is necessary to maintain round-the-clock monitoring
of blood sugar levels in some cases, Google advised an alternate way of
checking sugar level other than the finger-pricking method. The prototype
however will not be available for the consumers to test and try in next five
years.

According to Google;
“We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels
in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are
embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing
prototypes that can generate a reading once per second. We’re also
investigating the potential for this to serve as an early warning for the
wearer, so we’re exploring integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to
indicate that glucose levels have crossed above or below certain thresholds.
It’s still early days for this technology, but we’ve completed multiple
clinical research studies which are helping to refine our prototype. We hope
this could someday lead to a new way for people with diabetes to manage their
disease.”

Google smart contact lenses are definitely an early
technology and lot more has to be done before it becomes acceptable and get
approved by FDA.

Do you think Google smart contact lenses will be a huge
milestone for the future generations?